Khvay Samnang, Popil (2018), 22 minutes
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Mar 10, 2022 11:15am - 11:50am
Location
Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway
Details
east window in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder will present a series of film screenings of contemporary Southeast Asian artists. This series is guest curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. Cohen researches and teaches courses on art concerned with public sphere formation, decolonization, political violence, and ecology and environmentalism.
Khvay’s work critically interrogates the multidimensional character of rituals and politics; exposing the humanitarian and ecological impacts of globalization and its concomitant links to the waves of colonialism and migration which continually demarcate and define the spaces and temporalities of Southeast Asia. Popil develops a complex choreography based around the symbolism of the dragon; which both plays towards Euro-America’s tendency to employ the motif as a blanket symbol for much of East/Southeast Asia, as well as allows for an examination of the manner in which such iconography speaks towards a specifically Chinese or Cambodian mode of identity formation.
